The Structure and Logic of Interdisciplinary Research in Agent-Based Social Simulation

Nuno David (), Maria Bruno Marietto (), Jaime Simão Sichman () and Helder Coelho ()
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Nuno David: http://www.iscte.pt/~nmcd
Jaime Simão Sichman: http://www.pcs.usp.br/~jaime
Helder Coelho: http://www.di.fc.ul/~hcoelho

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2004, vol. 7, issue 3, 4

Abstract: This article reports an exploratory survey of the structure of interdisciplinary research in Agent-Based Social Simulation. One hundred and ninety six researchers participated in the survey completing an on-line questionnaire. The questionnaire had three distinct sections, a classification of research domains, a classification of models, and an inquiry into software requirements for designing simulation platforms. The survey results allowed us to disambiguate the variety of scientific goals and modus operandi of researchers with a reasonable level of detail, and to identify a classification of agent-based models used in simulation. In particular, in the interdisciplinary context of social-scientific modelling, agent-based computational modelling and computer engineering, we analyse the extent to which these paradigmatic models seem to be mutually instrumental in the field. We expect that our proposal may improve the viability of submitting, explaining and comparing agent-based simulations in articles, which is an important methodological requirement to consolidate the field. We also expect that it will motivate other proposals that could further validate, extend or change ours, in order to refine the classification with more types of models.

Keywords: Interdisciplinary Research; Social-Scientific Models; Multiagent-Based Models; Verification and Validation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-06-30
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